Hi Billtoo
Any pointers as to what I might need to do to get the external monitor working with Slacko please?
Thanks
peebee

Hi peebee,
On this pc without zarfy both monitors show the same screen.
When I bootup now I run zarfy and apply the settings, then I have the extended desktop.
I have Slacko 5.6 on a netbook and a laptop and both have an
external monitor connected to them.
I installed the proprietary ati driver on both and entered amdcccle in
the terminal, from there I was able to configure both screens, each
has the proper resolution for that screen.
The netbook has HD4200 and the laptop has HD5400 graphics so they are
both still supported by amd, if your laptop has XP on it then it'd be
in the legacy group I guess and the newer proprietary drivers don't
support legacy cards,maybe you could get the legacy driver to compile.

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Thanx heeps 01micko. I bought some new hardware and couldn't install an OS until I popped in a Slacko 5.6 CD, then it just happened. Must be destiny. I now have a screamingly fast puppy box which works a treat. The PAE recognises my 32Gb rAM, the nvidia driver recognises the nvidia GT630 with its 4Gb VRAM. Slacko installed on the SSD with no problems. Everything is good. Thanks again. SLACKO ROCKS! Very kewl.

Wondering how long it takes to boot Slacko with that computer setup?
Talk about overkill system for Puppy!
Puppy might use 1GB of memory if you had everything running at the same time.
Good to know it works on a computer with those specs.
Make sure to run the "Video Upgrade Wizard" and use the Nvidia drivers for that GT 630 card._________________The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected YaPI(any iso installer)

As always, this seems to be an improvement over the last version, however I'm experiencing a problem and I'm not entirely sure if it's my hardware or what. It's been happening since 5.4 or maybe before that (I think it wasn't a problem with 5.1), but there was quite a while that this was not occurring with pretty much the same apps and the exact same hardware.

It seems to be a random (and somewhat frequent) kernel panic. It doesn't always say that, but sometimes it does. Sometimes it goes to the "text console" and I can hit xwin to go back, and other times it's completely frozen with (error?) codes/events on a black screen.

^ A few users of Arch posted this a year ago, implicating the 3.4 kernel itself or a problem with btusb:
"I got a kernel panic about two weeks ago, and then again about an hour ago...
I have no clue how to address the problem, it seems these errors are completely sporadic, and I can't think of anything in common between their circumstances.

Honestly, it's just encouraging to see that it's not just me. I hope this isn't a huge problem with the Linux Kernel... Torvalds would be pissed.

EDIT: IRQPoll was not a solution for me, and I'm on linux 3.5.3-1, so the 3.5 update doesn't appear to offer all the salvation after all."

And then another guy replied:

"I've had the same problem and blacklisting btusb solved it for me."

So this may be unique to btusb and the 3.4(+?) kernel. I've got the slackware packages etc. installed so that I can use my (usb) Bluetooth keyboard so I think that may in fact be the issue (especially considering that the post is a year old and they haven't come back with an update that says "Still crashes with btusb blacklisted"). Of course, it could be something completely different, like my USB flash drive it's booting from, going bad or something like that I guess.

I don't know if I should go back to a version of Slacko with a earlier kernel or what, but I hope that this can be (easily) resolved somehow. I guess I should try an earlier version and see if this happens. If it does, then I'll try another flash drive and hope that fixes it.

So if anybody has usb bluetooth set up with a recent version of Slacko and you get the "black screen of death" - it's not just you.

My 2-year old desktop has been suffering a similar infrequent and unpredictable freeze with more recent kernels (for about 6 months?). This has happened with Fulls and Frugals, with Slackos, Precises, Rarings.

I can't make it happen, but subjectively, it may occur more often when I'm running a large program (e.g. Libre Office, Seamonkey) and hardly ever when I'm doing nothing.

I have tried a different RAM stick but eventually I got a freeze, so I'm thinking its the motherboard/CPU.

I can't verify your btusb blacklisting immediately as a fix to a kernel bug but will see if it does seem to work if I can find it in various Pups - Upup Raring-3.9.9.2 (using this at the moment) doesn't list it under the Boot Manager Blacklist option.

Please post any other reports of this annoying behaviour you come across - I still fear it's a hardware problem.

I switched to different usb drive, and plugged it into the port(I did have them on a cable because the ports are on the back) and used Slacko 5.4 which has an earlier 3.2 kernel as I had it on the drive already with save file. I installed a few of my apps that weren't on it (No Blank Screen, Savefileconfig) and just now it crashed to the console while I had firefox open (blank/home page I think) and was watching a shoutcastTV stream with VLC (which is very easy on system resources). The stream kept playing though and the system didn't freeze or crash entirely so I was able to hit ctrl+alt+del and type xwin to get x restarted. (Edit: It's been 12hrs or so, with Slacko 5.4 running and it did this again just now- but still no hard crash yet.)

So, I'm afraid it may be some sort of hardware issue/conflict. But I haven't yet experienced the full kernel panic crash that requires a hard reset so maybe this is a different problem (but the console output is similar in both cases).

I thought it might be faulty RAM (I have (2)x256MB of ram) but if you are experiencing a similar problem after you changed RAM then maybe it's not that either. Did you completely swap your RAM, or were you referring to your USB drive?

So, if it's not the RAM, not the kernel, (not related to my having bluetooth on it), and not the USB drive going bad, then... It's been happening for about 6mo. for me as well so that suggests it's puppy; but the fact that other puppies did that suggests otherwise. It's also possible that my problem is with newer Slacko versions, while yours is a different, hardware problem..

Maybe it was 5.1 that didn't do that. I know that for the longest time I didn't have this problem so maybe it's still Slacko.But maybe it is some motherboard issue- which would suck because that means it's possibly a prelude to a more permanent system failure. The sporadic nature tends to support that idea. But at least I only gave $50 for this PC and got a couple of years of use out of it

I am trying to install Openshot.
Which I had running on the previous Slacko.
Updated graphic - done.
Python via 'Devx SFS' loaded - done.
XFCE - not done? Not sure how best to get running. I found it, installed it and 'xwin startxfce4' does not seem to run it?

Tried Slacko 5.6 on this old P-4 Dell computer.
Works better, on first boot, than on my Bleeding edge Core i7 home built.

First boot on the Dell, everything auto setup and worked, including Wifi with the latest new Netgear N150 USB Wifi adapter. So the drivers are in Slacko for this Adapter.

On the Bleeding edge Core i7 home built,
I had to mess with Ndiswrapper to get Wifi working. It is probably an issue with the USB controller used on this computer, the adapter is not detected or turned on at boot. After loading driver with Ndiswrapper process, it is detected and active.

Only problem with the Dell was getting a better Nvidia driver installed.
Video Upgrade Wizard said there was nothing to upgrade too.
I knew The Nvidia 173 driver would work for this Nvidia card.
PPM download, install, and now using Nvidia 173 driver.
(thanks! 01micko for having driver in PPM)
That driver made a big difference on feel and snappiness of Slacko.
(seemed a little bogged down using the Nouveau driver)

Question
Are we at a point in Puppy's evolution where the subsystem he has tested should be added to "standard" PUPs without the need to PPM install? Would there be something harmful with this addition built-in?

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3 Different Puppy Search Enginesor use DogPile

When you select menu->Shutdown->exit to prompt
An information screen pops up giving info on what to do to return to X server and the desktop window manager.
Explaining how to use xwin an example is given:

Code:

xwin [fvwm95:jwm]

Well, this guy followed example and used

Code:

xwin fvwm95

It works and boots back to the desktop.
Everything seems to work except shutdown.
Nothing in the shutdown menu works.
Have fun getting back to a working shutdown menu.

Why would fvwm95 even do anything?

fvwm95 is a windows manager, but is it also installed in Slacko _________________The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected YaPI(any iso installer)

Question
Are we at a point in Puppy's evolution where the subsystem he has tested should be added to "standard" PUPs without the need to PPM install? Would there be something harmful with this addition built-in?

Benefit or not ...

I installed slackware64 version 14.0,then upgraded to slackware64
current which is at rc1.
KDE supports two monitors in the kde settings, it's working great on
this Acer desktop which has an intel graphics chip.
I'd imagine xfce4 has support for two monitors as well but I haven't
checked that yet.

Firefox that comes installed in Slacko is FirefoxESR 17.0.8
The "check for updates" never shows a newer version.
On another Puppy Firefox is up to version 23 or 24..

I think the internal update is not identifying newer versions, because the Firefox in Slacko is a ESR version (Test release) and all it is looking for is an ESR version._________________The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected YaPI(any iso installer)

Firefox that comes installed in Slacko is FirefoxESR 17.0.8
The "check for updates" never shows a newer version.
On another Puppy Firefox is up to version 23 or 24..

I think the internal update is not identifying newer versions, because the Firefox in Slacko is a ESR version (Test release) and all it is looking for is an ESR version.

There is no internal update with Firefox verisons in Slacko, because it is not an "official" mozilla build but a Slackware build, hence the Updates Manager is the recommended way to keep FF up to date. I know it says it's checking for updates but it's not, it is really a lazy mozilla bug that they don't care about. Not enough for me to abandon it though!

If you check Updates Manager you will find the latest version is now 17.0.9 ESR, compiled 18th September, uploaded at 02:56 UTC, so should be through to mirrors by now.

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